Our life just wasn’t the same without a dog around! We found Mesa on Craigslist (gotta love the site — we’ve furnished our entire home from there!) from a family who had bought her as a puppy, but had since had two boys and was moving to a home without a yard. Not a good…
I started Phase IV of the Daniels’ plan about a week and a half ago. So far, things are going great. It might be a mentality change. Instead of being buried inside of Phase III, where all I saw was high mileage & really tough workouts, I’m now seeing mileage taper down and the workouts…
Apparently that’s what it’s called when you can’t control your legs & start tripping over them at the end of a marathon. It was also the cause of concern during the middle of last week. On Tuesday, I did 4×12 minutes at tempo pace. It felt terrible from the beginning (after the 1st one I…
New all-time PR – that’s 4 for 4 so far in 2011! Although a little slower than my goal (2.5 seconds off of the stadium record), I’m still very happy with it. It was really windy on Saturday (15mph), and I ran solo from the beginning. The next girl was over 30 seconds behind me,…
I’m getting pretty excited to race this weekend! I don’t race often during a training cycle, so it’s a real treat when I get to look forward to one. First, let’s revisit the goals I laid out for myself back in November of 2010. I haven’t raced nearly as often as I laid out here,…
I knew I needed to nail it. The last two weeks have been peppered with rough tempo workouts, stopping-midway, etc. I also knew that I was unlikely to be able to do this myself. So, I called up the GAC assistant coach, Brenden, and asked if he’d be up for it. No hesitation. He was….